Moonlight Swirl (2016)

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You will need:

Font of your choice

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Gaetano Di Falco

Unfortunately he no longer sells his art in tube format

One of my Templates SpawnsFSTemplate139

Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies

Eye Candy 6: Textures/Swirl

Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow

Xero/Porcelain (optional)

Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow (optional)

Ok let's begin

Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original ... Delete the Credits layer

Activate the Main Background layer ... Paste your Tube as a New Layer

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Wall paper(rotate) ... default settings

Adjust> Blur> Motion Blur ... with the following settings

Edit> Repeat Motion Blur ... Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance More

Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Merge all the Foreground layers together

With this Forgeround layer active Paste your Tube as a New Layer

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line

Activate the Foreground layer again ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float

Selections> Defloat

Using the Move Tool position the Tube layer so what you want

to keep is inside the selection ... with the Tube layer active ... Selections> Invert

Edit> Clear ... Selections> Select None

Change the layers Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L)

Rename this layer Tube Line

Merge all the Lines layers together ... Change the layers Blend Mode to Overlay

Activate the Foreground layer again ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float

Selections> Defloat ... Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill the Selections with a color from your Tube ... Selections> Select None

Rename this layer Color ... Hide this layer for the moment

Activate the Border layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float

Selections> Defloat ... Selections> Modify> Expend ... by 2

Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill the Selection with the same color from your Tube you just used

Selections> Select None ... Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add noise ... with the following settings

Layers> Merge Down

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... Settings ... Drop ... Height 0

Merge all the Frame layers together ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float

Selections> Defloat ... Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill the Selections with colors from your Tube (I used 2 colors)

Selections> Select None ... Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Swirl

Click on the "Settings" tab and then on the "Painterly (Needs Source Image)" folder

then click on "Frosted Glass, Patchy " so it is highlighted blue

Click on the "Basic" tab and click the "Random Seed" button once

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings

Rename this layer Frame and Delete the original Frame layer

Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Apply a shadow ... I used

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... Settings ... Drop ... Blurry

And changed angle to a suitable one

Effects> Xero> Porcelain ... all Color Channels set to 0

In your layer palette move this layer below the Border layer

Add Copyrights and your Name ... Hide the following layers

Copyrights ... Your Name ... Border ... Tube ... Frame ... Main Background

ANIMATING

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Return to PSP unhide the Color layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Activate the first frame ... Effects> Insert Image Transition

Click on Customize

Click on OK then click on OK again

Activate the first frame ... Edit> Copy ... Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L twice

Activate the last frame ... Edit> Copy ... Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L twice

This is your Animation ... Minimize for the moment

Return to PSP hide all layers other than the Main Background and Foreground layers

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Go back to Animation Shop

Edit> Paste> As New Animation ... Edit> Copy

Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have 16 frames

Activate your Animation ... Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy

Activate the image with Background Frames ... Edit> Select All

Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames ... move into position and click once

Return to PSP hide the Bottom 4 layers and unhide all other layers

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Go back to Animation Shop

Edit> Paste> As New Animation ... Edit> Copy

Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have 16 frames

Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy Activate your Animation ... Edit> Select All

Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames ... move into position and click once

Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 13

And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation